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Why must I be jailbroken?
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This may be a Noob answer to a "Noob Question"
I have the Air Sharing app, that I got from the app store.
And YOU can use ON DEVICE SSH in that app..and I just checked it now and u can actually "Edit" the files in the device...not sure how much you can Edit, I know you can add stuff, I didn;t even want to attempt to delete files.
But yeah, you may want to check out Air Sharing App to SSH your files.
I have the Air Sharing app, that I got from the app store.
And YOU can use ON DEVICE SSH in that app..and I just checked it now and u can actually "Edit" the files in the device...not sure how much you can Edit, I know you can add stuff, I didn;t even want to attempt to delete files.
But yeah, you may want to check out Air Sharing App to SSH your files.
No it means you can only change things within the Apps directory.
Stop us from doing what? Accessing the root file system? simple they edit the service that that allows the iTunes media access to prevent root access. Jailbreaking changes this service to all access to everything.
To really understand this, you have to understand Unix (actually BSD) file permissions. Apple has basically locked us out of the file system, using a Unix command called chroot to create a chroot jail. This isolates user-run processes by changing the apparent root directory. All applications on your phone are within that chroot jail, and therefore do not have access to any other part of the file system. All of them see /var/mobile/ as the root directory, and have permission to access only two subfolders within that directory.
This is done by design, to create a more secure environment and to allow Apple greater control over your device. Jailbreaking, as you might be able to guess, is the process of breaking that chroot jail so that you, the user, can access the rest of the file system. Unless you jailbreak your phone, by definition you will be unable to access the real root folder of your phone.
By hacking it, you would be jailbreaking your phone. Cydia is not a required element of jailbreaking.
Why not just jailbreak it ? Sounds like you are essentially hung up on terminology.
Trust us Irish to try and jump through hoops, take four times longer, invest more time and energy than required to achieve the exact same thing everyone else is doing just to avoid 'terminology'....
Seriously Palz, just wait for the new spirit jailbreak. It will make theming a lot easier than any other method. Despite it's risks, your less likely to bog it up than messing about trying to crack open the file structure yourself.
Seriously Palz, just wait for the new spirit jailbreak. It will make theming a lot easier than any other method. Despite it's risks, your less likely to bog it up than messing about trying to crack open the file structure yourself.
And with the Spirit Jailbreak, since its an OTA Jailbreak, if something goes wrong, and they detect its Jailbroken, you can just say, "Oh I was on a website, and I accidentally clicked a link and this new app appeared. I thought it was a wireless update from Apple so I started using it." or something along those lines.
what do you mean by OTA? and what does it mean that spirit is a 'userland' jailbreak? Userland to me means /usr/bin, etc
Userland means that the jailbreak runs after the OS is loaded. Most jailbreaks must kick in before the OS is loaded because they need to modify iBoot to break the chmod jail.
Listen, if you want to access the root folder, you will have to jailbreak your phone. In fact, whether you try to come up with your own hack to break the chmod jail or use one of the very effective jailbreak apps others have made freely available, if you obtain access to the root folder you will by definition have jailbroken your phone. Why are you making this so much harder than it already is?